Following his arrest on Saturday, May 11, 2024, for his alleged involvement in some disturbances at a registration center, Collins Dauda, the Member of Parliament for Asutifi South, has been granted bail.

According to a police statement released over the weekend, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP was arrested in relation to a recent disturbance that occurred during the limited voter registration exercise in Kukuom, Ahafo Region. The disturbance resulted in one person being injured and being hospitalized.

The National Communications Officer of the NDC, Sammy Gyamfi, confirmed the bail to Citi News, stating that Collins Dauda was granted immediate release and maintaining that he had not committed any crimes.

“He [Collins Dauda] was immediately granted bail. And so he is currently on bail. And the police say that they are conducting their investigation, so he will hear from them. At no point was the Honorable Collins Dauda present at the scene.

“He was not there [at the scene] because he was busy in his constituency monitoring the registration process. So it came to us as a surprise when the police issued that statement, creating the impression as though Collins Dauda had committed a crime when they knew that he was not even at the scene when the said incident happened.”

Sammy Gyamfi in a press statement, was more critical of the arrest and urged the police to concentrate their efforts on capturing the real disturbance’s perpetrators.

“So we condemn what the police did and we are calling on them to focus on arresting the real perpetrators of that chaos, of those criminal actions. The NPP hoodlums and bandits were led by a known NPP bandit called Anointing.

“He is a notorious guy in the area, everybody knows him, the police know him, they know where he lives. They should focus on arresting and prosecuting those hoodlums who went to the voting centre to harass, intimidate, and brutalise innocent citizens.”